I need some opinions on this work situation, this is not an office job type setting and is an outsidy, manual type job.
I have been there part time for some years and enjoy it quite a lot. I am good at it and bring people a lot of happiness and improvement in their training which is a big part of the job.
They are now looking for a full time manager and have asked me if i would take the job. They would REALLY like me to take it on and to be honest i'd love to and would love to make some huge improvements to the place and really push the business forward.
They are three small teams which work in separate but linked areas/departments. Everybody crosses over facilities, uses the main office etc. So although I would be managing one section, it does link over a little bit with the other sections in as much as saying hello, using office/work space and using supplies.
The huge BUT is that over the few years of part time I have been working there i have come to realise that alot of the staff are hugely oversensitive and reactive. It doesnt really affect me part time but i would be in much more contact with these people should i take full time. They seem to take offence at the slightest thing and then hold it against you FOREVER. For example, a couple of the staff did not want to improve themselves in line with the improvements that have been put in place over the last few years, some of which involve me. They then seem to get very jealous and take it out on me because i go along with the improvements and by doing so my performance improves and they really seem to dislike this. It is seriously hurtful when i feel im just doing my best by the business and it seems to help bring in more revenue.
More recently, a couple of other members of the team have taken huge offence when I have made comment about a couple of little mistakes that had been made, I do this because when I am there part time, I am a senior member of staff and so quite within my job role to pass comment. They then stop talking to me, avoid me or actively tell people 'i dont like them'. Which is just not true.
Now, I know that I am not perfect and Despite wanting to take the job I dont know how i could bear to put up with these niggles and these over reactions every day if i took the job full time. It has hugely put me off.
I dont feel like I am doing anything in a nasty or non professional way to these people but the it really feels like I am back at school - could i bear that full time?!!